The Taxidermist (Hattie Howard Poems)
From other men he stands apart, Wrapped in sublimity of thought Where futile fancies enter not; With starlike purpose pressing on Where Agassiz and ...
Hattie Howard Poems on Light (9 Poems)
Epithalamium (Hattie Howard Poems)
I. "Whom God hath joined"--ah, this sententious phrase A meaning deeper than the sea conveys, And of a sweet and solemn service tells With ...
On Bancroft Height (Hattie Howard Poems)
On Bancroft height Aurora's face Shines brighter than a star, As stepping forth in dewy grace, The gates of day unbar; And lo! the ...
The Student Gone (Hattie Howard Poems)
So soon he fell, the world will never know What possibilities within him lay, What hopes irradiated his young life, With high ambition ...
Receiving Sight (Hattie Howard Poems)
In hours of meditation fraught With mem'ries of departed days, Comes oft a tender, loving thought Of one who shared our youthful plays. In ...
Lightning-Bugs (Hattie Howard Poems)
Around my vine-wreathed portico, At evening, there's a perfect glow Of little lights a-flashing-- As if the stellar bodies had From super-heat grown hyper-mad, And ...
Rutha (Hattie Howard Poems)
The days are long and lonely, The weary eve comes on, And the nights are filled with dreaming Of one beloved and gone. I ...
Mount Vernon (Hattie Howard Poems)
Subdued and sad, I trod the place Where he, the hero, lived and died; Where, long-entombed beneath the shade By willow bough and ...
Woman’s Help (Hattie Howard Poems)
Sometimes I long to write an ode And magnify his name, The man of honor, on the road To opulence and fame, On whom ...